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Posted by speckx 1 day ago

The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections(www.bloodinthemachine.com)
120 points | 82 commentspage 2
otikik 1 day ago|
If it's for sale, someone will buy
tiahura 1 day ago||
So about the same amount as the spend on a single row in a datacenter?
AvAn12 1 day ago||
If businesspeople want to get involved in politics, they should have the courage to run for office like anybody else. Lurking on the sidelines and waiving money around is really lame and laughable.
WalterBright 1 day ago||
If your business is large enough, if you don't donate to politicians, they will target your business.

The government is massive and inserts itself into business operations all the time. The inevitable results happen.

AvAn12 1 day ago||
There ARE regulations for sure. But they exist to protect the population at large. For example, food safety laws were not created out of government hostility but rather because food was unsafe. Read (or read about) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair if you want to get creeped out about the food industry in the 1930s before regulations
WalterBright 1 day ago||
Are you suggesting that government use of power is always benevolent?

Consider the enormous difficulty and expense people in Palisades have getting permits to rebuild.

Yes, I read "The Jungle". It's a work of fiction, not a documentary. So is "The Grapes of Wrath".

somenameforme 1 day ago||
There are people who couldn't care less about political power, but want certain laws passed, and have lots of money. And then there those who couldn't care less about much of anything besides gaining political power and see money and quid quo pro as means to achieve that.
AvAn12 1 day ago||
Then those people are on the sidelines like every other citizen. Play the game or be a spectator. Nobody gets to have it both ways.
Joker_vD 1 day ago||
You have very interesting ideas on how the world should be run. A pity that others ignore them and just do whatever suits them better.
jlarocco 1 day ago||
"Voting with your Wallet" - the American way.
nonethewiser 1 day ago||
The problem is you can’t really limit money without limiting speech. Perhaps it’s still in the public interest to do so, but the constitution doesn’t allow it.
testing22321 1 day ago||
There is only one country where money is considered speech.

It is very abnormal, and is legal bribery.

nonethewiser 1 day ago||
Other countries also don’t have the first amendment.

Yet they still have paid political ads. All political advertisements arent banned in other countries. Should they be?

ToucanLoucan 1 day ago||
The rich love the concept of voting with your wallet, because by definition they get shitloads more votes than you.
WalterBright 1 day ago|||
Ballot harvesting should be made illegal.
akramachamarei 1 day ago|||
How you define it, exactly?
nonethewiser 1 day ago|||
Yup
nonethewiser 1 day ago|||
Well its not voting that they buy. Its more like representation.
testing22321 1 day ago||
What major industry in the US hasn’t been doing that for decades?

At this point it’s a perfectly common cost of doing business there. Pay money to get favourable laws passed. But it’s not bribery. No no no.

guywithahat 1 day ago|
I mean many of these companies are doing tens of billions in revenue each, meanwhile their home state is becoming increasingly hostile to their presence. That said this article shares no numbers so I have no idea what the scope or scale of their impact is.